Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.John Stuart Mill
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
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The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion.
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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
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They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.
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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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